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Arnold Ful Maldonado, I'm up for Best Scenic Design of a Musical for a Strange Loop
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Is Tony Day my friend? How does it feel? It feels unreal, but wonderful
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What a whole journey they like for you with designing a Strange Loop? Broadway was never really on the map
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No, it's been almost five years since I started working on this. And we started it from its inception at Playwright's Horizons through Woolly Mammoth and now here
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What have you enjoyed the most about designing it for Broadway with a beautiful Lyceum theater
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It's, I mean, that is a gorgeous theater, and I think just the scale of it
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and slightly sort of upgrading the design of it, and being able to do things that we weren't able to do off-Broadway
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has been a joy. Were there challenges to you to unlock the way you wanted to design the show
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or were you on it right away? No, it was definitely a challenge to figure out
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how do we illustrate Usher's mind on stage. Like, that's sort of an unknown
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So figuring out how we best illustrated that was the big challenge. And how this show is affecting people on emotional level, on a spiritual level, what it means to
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This show is now on Broadway. Yeah. No, I mean, I think part of what I take pride in is that the set sort of helps the audience also take that journey with them
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It's responding to Usher and the thoughts as Usher is navigating this world
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So I feel like the audience is right there with the set moving as well. You're wearing a Tony PIN
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I am. It is very cool, right
